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1) DC treated Alan Moore quite shabbily, and the people in charge should be ashamed of continue to exploit his work, in light of that history.
2) I have no doubt that the prequels will be far less philosophically interesting and technically well-executed than Watchmen.
3) I find it simultaneously infuriating and hilarious how respectful and protective many comics fanboys are of Moore and his professionally published fan fiction and yet the same fanboys act all appalled and offended by amateur fan fiction. Moore uses other people's characters. He makes them act severely OOC to indulge his erotic kinks and to ride his political/social commentary hobby horses. He writes completely self-indulgent porn with other people's characters, including incest porn (of course, his is father/daughter rather than brother/brother, so that's different). He writes slash about characters who were almost certainly intended by their creators to be read as heterosexual or asexual (of course, his is mostly f/f rather than m/m, and all his explicit slash is f/f, and it follows "girl-on-girl for the male gaze" tropes rather than "stories about lesbians" tropes, so that's different). He writes tons and tons of rape and sexualized violence and violent sex happening to other people's characters and his own (of course, these scenes aren't like those meritless bodice-rippers and rape fantasies, so that's different). He's even written Harry Potter non-con fic about Voldemort molesting a crossover character who had already survive previous sexual assaults-- that's supposed to be the lowest of the low, right? But Moore got applause for it and also got paid for it. Oh, and he racefails in his for-profit fanfic. He racefails HARD. But nobody's supposed to talk about that, or if anyone does bring it up, the general consensus quickly emerges that anyone who is troubled by the unfortunate racial implications is just not smart enough to get what Moore is really trying to say.
Don't give me any lines about the difference being in the quality of his work or in how he uses other people's characters and the situations he puts them in to make philosophical points. Amateur fan writers produce high quality works that make philosophical points too. No, the worst of amateur fic is not at the same level of quality. But the best of it is. In fact, much of the "groundbreaking" genre commentary that Moore gets credit for parallels commentary that amateur fan writers started making through their work years before Moore did. It's just that the larger community didn't pay attention until Moore said it. After all, he is the sort of person who would be expected to make insightful and important points, so it's different when he does it.
2) I have no doubt that the prequels will be far less philosophically interesting and technically well-executed than Watchmen.
3) I find it simultaneously infuriating and hilarious how respectful and protective many comics fanboys are of Moore and his professionally published fan fiction and yet the same fanboys act all appalled and offended by amateur fan fiction. Moore uses other people's characters. He makes them act severely OOC to indulge his erotic kinks and to ride his political/social commentary hobby horses. He writes completely self-indulgent porn with other people's characters, including incest porn (of course, his is father/daughter rather than brother/brother, so that's different). He writes slash about characters who were almost certainly intended by their creators to be read as heterosexual or asexual (of course, his is mostly f/f rather than m/m, and all his explicit slash is f/f, and it follows "girl-on-girl for the male gaze" tropes rather than "stories about lesbians" tropes, so that's different). He writes tons and tons of rape and sexualized violence and violent sex happening to other people's characters and his own (of course, these scenes aren't like those meritless bodice-rippers and rape fantasies, so that's different). He's even written Harry Potter non-con fic about Voldemort molesting a crossover character who had already survive previous sexual assaults-- that's supposed to be the lowest of the low, right? But Moore got applause for it and also got paid for it. Oh, and he racefails in his for-profit fanfic. He racefails HARD. But nobody's supposed to talk about that, or if anyone does bring it up, the general consensus quickly emerges that anyone who is troubled by the unfortunate racial implications is just not smart enough to get what Moore is really trying to say.
Don't give me any lines about the difference being in the quality of his work or in how he uses other people's characters and the situations he puts them in to make philosophical points. Amateur fan writers produce high quality works that make philosophical points too. No, the worst of amateur fic is not at the same level of quality. But the best of it is. In fact, much of the "groundbreaking" genre commentary that Moore gets credit for parallels commentary that amateur fan writers started making through their work years before Moore did. It's just that the larger community didn't pay attention until Moore said it. After all, he is the sort of person who would be expected to make insightful and important points, so it's different when he does it.
